Writing every day across nine time zones because Gillian [Grassie] was in Berlin, and we were working together via Skype. It was pretty intense. I'm really happy with how it turned out.

You can never walk a mile in someone elses shoes, but you can walk a mile in your own and be proud of it.

You really just have to have a good attitude, challenge yourself, and you can accomplish great things.

I would love to get an international version of Riding Shotgun going, because that's what I've been angling at ever since I wanted to do a travel show in the first place.

We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like, "I think we might name our child Zach because of your work."

I feel that religion can be used as a tool to guide your life and help you connect with other people.

No Atlantis is too underwater or fictional.

What I don't like about the way the media portrays religion is that they seem to weaponize it and use it as a tool to divide people.

You may not have a physical impairment, but you have things, whether it's finances, self-esteem, it doesn't matter. It's cut from the same cloth.

Writing was not my medium. I preferred to do video.

There's always going to be some hate on the Internet.

This is what I like about being a designer: You can't really get it until you see it.

US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and I have repeatedly sought to emphasize that the progress in Iraq is fragile and also, possibly, reversible.

Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue, but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy.

When you resist a difficulty you antagonize it, and it bites back.

Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self.

The single most important thing in life is to believe in yourself regardless of what everyone else says.

Our salvation never comes in the form we would have chosen.

There's a fashion, or maybe you could call it a necessity, in French cinema to make social films, which is to say films in which the characters are defined by their social context.

I just write from how I feel. As an outlet.

Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself excluded.